Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:03:31
Message-Id: 20071221005703.155462c3@blueyonder.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) by Denis Dupeyron
1 On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:54:10 +0100
2 "Denis Dupeyron" <calchan@g.o> wrote:
3 > On Dec 20, 2007 12:12 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
4 > <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
5 > > I'm guessing there're lots of people moaning because they think they
6 > > understand filenames and can therefore comment. Unfortunately, most
7 > > of those people don't understand the metadata generation process,
8 > > and therefore can't comment usefully...
9 >
10 > Stop guessing, then. You're way off. You apparently do not understand
11 > that an assertion without justification has no value in a serious
12 > discussion.
13
14 I was being nice. Next time I'll post a list of names of people who
15 don't understand the metadata generation process and who therefore
16 can't comment usefully...
17
18 > Even it that has already been explained somewhere else, it
19 > may have been interpreted differently by different people (assuming
20 > they can find it).
21
22 How they interpret is different from the objective fact of what the
23 process is.
24
25 > And sorry to disappoint you but you're not alway
26 > right. You have to give people a chance to contradict you, for your
27 > own good.
28
29 People who know what they're talking about are more than welcome to
30 contradict me. People who don't understand what's being discussed
31 (which is most people in this thread) need to learn to stop wasting
32 people's time.
33
34 --
35 Ciaran McCreesh

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